The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-03 00:00:00

jority of upwards of 400 over the Whig Candidate, backed by all the Government influence, has proved their strength and rewarded their activity. It is now quite evident that even if the Radical candidate had given way, and not divided what is called tha Liberal interest, the Conservative Candidate must still have succeeded by a majority of upwards of 200, even supposing that the whole of the voters who polled for the Gallant Colonel had given their votes to Mr. Ewart. In that event Lord Teignmouth's majority would still have amounted to upwards of 200 ; so that, unless the Ministerial writers are prepared to demolish " Cocker," as a Tory fabri cator of arithmetical falsehoods, they cannot place the defeat of the Whig candidate to a diversion created by the Radicals. Let Cocker speak for himself. He puts the matter thus:— Lord Teignmouth 4,179 Mr. Ewart 3,743 Colonel Thompson Adding the Whig and Radical votes together gives 3,954 Taking the Whig and Radical votes from the Con servative, leaves Consequently, had Whig and Radical combined, the majority for Lord Teignmouth would still have been 225, without making any account of the circumstance, that the very large majority of 833, which his Lordship had over the Whig candi date at two o'clock, may have prevented many Conservatives from taking the trouble of going to vote, in the confidence that the victory was perfectly safe. This is a foolish sort of reason for neglecting to exercise the elective franchise, we admit; but we know that the thing has happened in other in stances, and it may have happened again. This new proof of •' no reaction" will probably be as satisfactory to the Whigs as the many other proofs of the same sort which they have re ceived during some time past ; proofs of the returning so briety and sanity of the public mind from the feverish disturb ance and delirium of revolutionary excitement; proofs of that renovated wholesomeness of public feeling which is gradually restoring, the property, the intelligence, and the respectability of the country to their fair share of representation in the House of Commons. The recent disgraceful exposure which the Whigs have made of themselves in endeavouring to screen O'Connell from the merited yuniahment to which his " false and scan dalous imputation upon the honour of the house of Com mons" bad subjected him, we have no doubt, had a favourable effect upon the Ma"ylebone election. The general disgust and indignation which that basest and most ignominious act of Whig subserviency to the foul-mouthed calumniator of the English and Scottish gentry has excited will not soon perish from the public mind. If the language of the man who formerly branded the Whigs and Tories of the House of Commons as as 600 scoundrels, and recently has charged all but his Lich field House allies as " foul perjurers" in judicial proceedings, were to become the familiar language of Parliament, the tone of gentlemanly society would relapse into barbarism, and the British Senate would at length be placed on a level with the House of Assembly in the American State of Arkansas, where it appears the Speaker enforces "order" by advancing upon a refractory member with the spring cf a Red Indian, and " reprimanding" him with the point of his bowie knife —Morning Herald. MARYLEBONE ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—The recent election in the populous borough cf St. Marylebone has terminated in a manner which I hesitate not to say was never anticipated by the most rabid of the Con servative party. We cannot well be surprised at it. The Tory party did indeed put their shoulder to the wheel ; there was not a vote lost for want of exertion on their part. I would be the last in the world to condemn the Liberal party unnecessarily—l would not say a word against them if it were not loudly and justly called for. Oa no occasion—and I say it boldly, and without fear of contradiction—on no occasion in the annals of electioneering has any party been guilty of so ;ouch apathy as the Liberal party at this contest. In the first place, they have been divided. It will be doubtless said, this is bad argument; because, as Colonel Thompson only ob tained about two hundred votes, it could not by any poss . - bility affect the return of Mr. Ewart, who was beaten by Lord Teignmouth with upwards of four hundred votes : so that if we suppose, for the sake of argument, that Colonel Thomp son had not taken the field, and that all the votes polled in favour of the Colonel had been numbered on the side of Mr. v n eert. still Lord Tcignmouth would have gained his election by Ppwarth 4::1 two /zuudted. This rensening ar•pears at first ,; . e very ; but it will not stand the test of irn;7artial l u veselgntion. Many of the electors, to my certain knowledge. d ee lj u e ( reeeti,r, - either for Colonel Thompson or Mr. Ewart, on account of the division which was unh ippily caused between them. 1-1 0 .„( unpardonable, then, does the conduct of the Liberals appear ! Had there been no disunion, Mr. Esvart or the Colonel would have now been the representative of the re peet•tblc and influential constituency of the borough of St Merylebone. But now how does the case stand ? They hare two .Mennbers—ene all that is liberal and excellent, the other all that is violent end ari;tociatic. Marylebone ►s nullified. The benefits accruing from the Reform Bill do not extend to them. In übe Legislature what are they?—a nullity, a nonentity La• other electors beware I Let other electors, when they ace called upon for the exercise of the elective franchise, take heel iest they, like the people of Marylehone, by their cold ness, their apathy, their indifference, strike a deadly blow at the root of their own happiness and interests. I am, Sir, your's respectfully, March 3, /833 H. J. P. THE RVSSIA COMPANY-THE EARL OF DURHAM. On Thursday, the Ist instant, the anniversary of this Company, which was chartered upwards of three centuries ago (in or about the year 1530, we believe), was celebrated in the usual fashion of English festivity, by a dinner at the London Tavern. About 100 members were present, and Mr. A stell, of the East India Company, was in the Chair. 'The Earl et' Durham was the principal guest upon the occasion ; he was loudly greeted upon his entrance. The Russian Minister at she British Court, M. Benkhausen ; the Russian Consul, Chevalier Modisco ; the Ambassador from Russia to the United States of America ; Sit Charles Fagot, and others, were also present as guests. Mr. ASTELL took an early opportunity, after the removal of the cloth, to propose " The health of the Earl of Durham." He stated that the Noble Earl had been invited to honour them with his pre sence, that the Russian Company might personally testify to his Lordship - their high estimate of his services at the Court cf St. Petersburgh. The name of Britain had never stood higher in Russia than during the ministry iof the Earl of Durham in that country, and never had the British - merchant been more respected, or his rights more strongly enforced.- 4Cheers.) The Noble Earl's urbanity had endeared him to that class of .her Majesty's subjects resident or casually present in Russia, whilst the lofty pretensions of the country whose important political interests he represented had been rigorously maintained in the high councils of the .empire. He (Mr. Asteli) spoke Ilse sentiments of all the British mer 'chants engaged in commercial dealings with Russia when he said that - the departure of the Noble Earl from that quarter was to be deeply re :eretted.--(Hear, hear.) At the same time it was impossible not to re joice in the prospect which the contemplation of the Noble Earl's efforts in another hemisphere opened to the view. Every good subject of the :realm had reason to feel proud of the mission which had been under_ -taken by the Earl of Durham ; and although all could not appreciate its difficulties, none doubted that these would be overcome by the force of that genius which had raised his Lordship to so elevated a place in the ad niration of his countrymen.—(Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with the usual honours and considerable applause. The :Earl of DURHAM rose to return thanks, and was greeted with a :renewal of the applause. He expressed his deep gratitude to the Chairman for the sentiments with which he had coupled his name, and - to the company for the manner in which they had responded to - those sentiments. In Russia he had done no more than his duty ; but the performance of that duty it had been a source of much gra eificatien that his eftbrts to promote the interests of British commerce .itad been backed by the high respectability of the British merchants rreAltmt in that country. The Emperor, he could assure them, was sensible of the excellence of their conduct, and he had readily redressed many grievances under which they laboured. Although :greatly misunderstood and much vilified in this country, he (the .Earl of Durham) had not been able to discover any trace of hostility in 'the mind of the Emperor, who had, on the contrary, continually assured him of his earnest desire to cultivate the most amicable relations with this country.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") With respect to , f amide, :to which allusion had been made, he felt highly the compli ments that had been paid to him. His object in going to that country would be to allay the passions of party, not to persecute any. For the benefit inf all parties, he should stand aloof from all during his temporary ad .ministration of the Government. He did not mean to share the respon sibilities of his office with any sect or party in the colonies; but, as he - was sent out to investigate the grievances of each, he should do so with an impartial and independent mind.—(Hear, hear.) Impartiality would not be possible if he were to exercise his functions through the :agency of any party. His object, as he had already stated, was not persecution, but pacification ; and wherever it should appear that clemency for past transgressions could be extended without encouraging the iiiture repetition of them, there it would be manifested.—(Cheers.) Ile went out its a spirit of fairness, with a determined resolution to conciliate, if possible ; and, at all events, to lay the foundations of future peace and prosperity. He could not, therefore, anticipate failure, although he' was prepared for difficulties, and, he hoped, to conquer them.—(Che ere) Other toast. , were drunk, and the company remained together till a late hour of the night. MR. DOUGLAS JE.RROLD'S NEW WORK.—We arc glad to observe that so general a disposition prevails to do justice to Mr. Jerrold's clever work, just published, entitled ‘‘ Men of Character." The Examiner thus speaks of it : —.4 These are very forcible volumes—written with great honesty, earnestness, and manliness of feeling ; and with a perfect command of incident and character. What 'they want is good humour. The author's purpose is al ways .so high and praiseworthy that he could now and then afford t'o pursue it with less severity of spirit. We are at a loss very often whether we laugh from malice or from pleasure. The same uvcompromising earnestness on the part of the author, which sharpeos and subtilizes the feeling of the reader, takes something frrim• its perfect ease and enjoyment. Yet he never experiences the want of life and spirit, of just and forcible sentiment, of acut uercept,on, great fidelity in description, and combinations of character at once startling, ingenious, and just." At an early hour of the morning before yesterday the inhabitant , : of Ormsby-street, Kingsland-road, were thrown into, a dreadful state of alarm, in consequence of a loud ex plo,ion, which proceeded from a house iu the street, occupied by a man named Ridley. Three policemen immediately ran in to the house, who ascertained on inquiry that Ridley, whose intellects ,Are at times disordered, had got up in the night. and Laving 'aid d- train to communicate with, a large flask lull cf 2 ""P' 3 ' 4 Icr, I e ignited it and produced the explosion; and, atr.ingoio say, , • Ithough the window-frames were shattered to pieces, and p'irt of the wall thrown down, the insane author e*4 4 , 11 mischief esi'Aped without the slightest hurt. The searchinc,t 11;s room, found two blunderbusses and 41 , rifle, which they took Kssession of and conveyed to the ;to lion house', The neiglhourhood has frequently of late been p z ..'thrown int"; confusian by the frantic freaks of Ridley, who, on • ', !the precrdiiig night,.opened his window and discharged one of :his guns at a polier:orna nin the street. His friends are about /3 take steps to plr &e gun wider proper restraint. COAL MONOPOLY. MEETING OF THE COFFEE AND EATING- R 0 USE KEEPERS. Yesterday evening a meeting of the London Coffee-house and Eating-house Keepers was held at Eastey's Hotel, Southampton-street, Strand, " for the purpose (in the terms of the public advertisement by which it was called) of pe titioning both Houses of Parliament against the combination of coal-owners and factors." There were present some of the leading members of the trade. Mr. HUMPHREYS was unanimously called to the chair. The advertisement having been read, the Chairman said, it was unnecessary for him to dwell upon the importance of the sub ject. He might truly say, it "came home to every man's fireside."—( Hear, hear.) It was evident that great abuses must somewhere exist under the present system, from the very high price of coals during the last three or four years.— ( Hear, hear.) He believed the price of coals had been sta tionary, at a higher average, for the last three years than it had been for many preceding years.—( Hear, hear.) Of all the classes which this grievance affected none felt it more than themselves ; and they would be wanting to their own interests and to the interests of the community at large, if they did not come forward and evince to the Legislature their anxiety for the removal of the heavy tax which this monopoly inflicted upon them more than any other class.—( Hear.) An instance had come to his own knowledge within the last three weeks, which he would mention—a contract had been entered into with an individual for the supply of Coals to a Charitable So ciety, at the regular market prices, is. 9d. a bushel. In the course of the following week, it was found that he had been in the habit of robbing the poor of 141 b. in every hundred weight. The parties were, of course, desirous to prosecute this dishonest person to the utmost extremity of the law. But upon applying to a Magistrate, they were told that there was no Clause in the present Coal Act under which he could take cognizance of the case. And it appeared this was the fact; that Act was totally inefficient to meet the numerous cases of fraud which every day occured.—( Hear, hear.) So that a man might defraud his customers, of 7,8, cr 10Ib. in the cwt.—and there was no remedy ; the Magistrates could not take cognizance of it ; tale inspectors of weights said it did not come within their province, for pound weights might be all right enough—and the fraud was committed by not putting in enough ; and as to taking the matter into the Queen's Bench, or applying to the Quarter Sessions, the expence effectually precluded a poor man, who was most likely to suffer by these frauds, from pur -1 suing such a course.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. ' FORBES (Secretary to the Association) said the first resolution wag— " That the combination of coal owners and factors to limit the supply of coals, and to keep up the price of that important article, is a most serious oppression and unjust burden upon the whole community, and more especially upon the Coffee and - Eating -house- Keepers of the metropolis." An able article had lately appeared in The Sun, which clearly showed that nearly one-half of the whole amount raised upon coals in London for one year, was distributed amongst the coal factors—about 500,0001. a year. Now what exorbitant profits must be raised on the article, to afford such an enormous amount merely for the sellit,g of it !—( Hear.) The coals paid 10 shillings per ton at the pit, and 103. for freight to London, with 7d. for dues, amounting to 11. Os. 7d. Now coals were selling in London at 21. es. per ton, showing a pretty decent profit of more than 245. per ton, about 120 per cent.—( Hear, hear.) It was plain that this could only arise from a combination among the coal owners and coal fac tors. Now all such combinations were alike unjust and inju rious to the community at large.—( Hear. ) Mr. DEACON seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. MARSHALL moved the second resolution— " That a petition be presented from the Calico and Eating house keepers, as a ho ly, to the House of Commons, and that the same be stned by the meeting, on behalf of the Chairman, and the Secretary, and that other petitions be prepared to be signed by the public at large, and left at the various houses of the trade for signature." The burden of this monopoly pressed particularly upon themselves, for their business was carried on principally by means of this article.—( Hoar, hear.) It should be remem bered that the present system was as injurious to the crews ernp'oyed in the trade, as to the consumers, for the vessels being kept so much longer in the pool, the sailors were all that time idle —( Hear, hoer.) He (Me. M.) was pleased to find that the Coffee-house and Eating-house keepers were the first to come Erwar.l as a body for the removal or this cryin g grief once.—( Hear. ) The SECRETABY said, the draft of a petition had been drawn up in the following terms ' 'To the lion. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament azssemided. " humble petition of the C,Sfee aral Eating-house Keepers of London agreed to at a public meeting, held at EAstcy's Hotel, March 2. Sbeweth, "That your petitioners are, from the nature of their busi ness, gr:at consumers of coal, and that the high price at which that article is sold in London, is to them a grievous and op pressive burden. That your petitioners attribute the exorbitant price of coal to the existing, combination between the great coal proprietors and the coal factors in the metropolis, for the purpose of limiting the supply. That your petitioners sub mit that a combination, for the purpose of raisin; or keeping up the price of one of the first necessaries of life, is as unjust in principle, as it is oppressive in its operation, and imposes a heavy and grievous burden upon the great body of the commu nity for the benefit of a few. " That your petitioners respectfully submit that many deaths have recently been occasioned in this metropolis by cold an I starvation, and that a vast and dreadful proportion of the diicases which have existed, and do exist, among the poorer classes, ale occasioned by the want of sufficient warmth am! shelter. That your Hon. House, by having changed the s)s tern of the sale of coals from measure to weight, in order to protect the public from frauds and impositions, have thereby already recognized the principle and propriety of interference in tha supply and vend of this important article ; but your peti tioners submit the Act which your Hon. House passed for that purpose contains no protection for the poor, as there are no weighers, or meters, or other checks, or penalties to protect them from frauds. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray they may be heard in Committee, or otherwise, by their agents, and witnesses to prove these allegations, and that your Hon. House will take this great public grievance into your immediate consideration, and adopt such measures as in your wisdom you may deem proper, fur redeeming the community om this intolerable burden. ~.. .............____ " And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever _ pray, &c." The SECRETARY stated that the Coal Committee, now sit ting at the House of Commons, was appointed to consider upon the propriety of renewing a temporary Act which had been passed for changing the system of sale in coals from measure to weight. That Act contained no provisions for pre venting fraud ; and if the House granted the prayer of this petition, it would be the object of the petitioners to press the necessity of inserting some such provisions in the renewed Act. The CHAIRMAN remarked, that as a member of a Charitable Committee for distributing Coals, &c., in the late severe wea ther, he had visited about one hundred families, and found one half without any fuel. And the medical officers of his parish assured him, that of 400 cases two-thirds were destitute of fuel.—( Hear, hear. ) The resolution and petition were agreed to unanimously. It was resolved, thirdly—That an agent be appointed to prepare and conduct the case of the Coffee and Eating-house Keepers, and to take charge of the several petitions which may be signed at their houses. Mr. BROWN moved the fourth resolution :—" That the thanks of the Coffee and Eating-house Keepers be given to the Editor of The Sun, for having for a long period exclu sively, and until this moment, perseveringly and earnestly, advocated the repeal of the coal monopoly." He had great pleasure in moving this resolution. The Sun was the only Paper which had taken up this subject. Mr. HAKE seconded the resolution. He might observe that the Durham Railway Bill had been thrown out in the House of Lords, because it was known that, if the Bill passed, the people of London would be able to obtain their coals much cheaper than they now obtained there.—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") So much for Hereditary Legislators. He thought a Morning Paper established on the same princi ples as The Sun Evening Paper would do well. All the Morning Papers now in existence were merely the organs of parties, instead of consulting the public good.—( Hear, hear. ) The CHAIRMAN, in putting the resolution, said it was very creditable to the Editor of The Sun, for the pains he had taken to bring this abuse before the public. The resolution was carried unanimously. It was then resolved— " That these resolutions be advertised in The Sun, Morning Chronicle, Times, Advertiser, and Weekly Dis patch." A Parliamentary agent was appointed ; thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned at ten o'clock. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta—My attention has been called to the leading article in your widely circulated Journal of the 26th inst., wherein you state, under the head of " Coal Monopoly in the Port of London," that about 19 or 20 factors divide amongst them an nually upwards of 400,0001. Now, Sir, as I imagine the value of your Paper must entirely depend on the veracity of its statements, I am sure you will have no objection to hear, and at the same time publish to the world, the extent of the imposition which has been practised on you; for I will not for a moment suppose, that you would willingly injure a class cf persons of whom you can know nothing but by report ; and believing, as I do, that integrity of purpose is one of the grand motives of your Journal, I have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that you will at your earliest convenience, give pub licity to the following facts :—You have stated that the factors divide amongst them annually the sum of 400,0001., which, of course you mean as commission for their services. Now, Sir, it is notorious that the factor's commission for selling is Is. 3d. per ton, and as there were 2,626,997 tons imported during the last year, they could receive only 32,8371. 9s. instead of the 400,000/. which you have been bountiful enough to award them for their annual se rv i ces; an d , on t h e average o f t h e last six years, the commission amounted to 98, 9 34/. only. I therefore must beg to remind y ou t h at your informant has led you into the trifling error of 371,366/. You are quite correct in stating that there are not more than 19 or 20 houses, but they are composed of about 36 persons, all of whom devote the whole of their time to business an d h ave l arge cap i ta l s em barked. I beg also to inform yon that they rece i ve on l y A- per cent. for guarantee, instead of 2 or 3 p er cent ., the charg e usual in other commission business. I shall not attempt to follow you through your various assertions on the other parts of the tr. Ale, which it would he as easy for me to confute, as to point out, as I have done, the trifling error of 371,7661. i n t h e factor's commission; suffice it to say, there is too much com- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1838. petition in every branch of the coal trade for any part of it to be overpaid ; and the truth of this will I trust be brought out by the Committee now sitting to investigate the present regu lations which govern the trade, and which were made in 1833 to protect the coal and ship owner from certain ruin, and which in result have proved so beneficial in supplying the metropolis with fuel at a steady and moderate price, instead of the de structive fluctuations which invariably visited the poorer classes when the trade was open, and without those regula tions which are at present so little understood. Feb. 28, 1838. VERITAS. purchase of colliers than Mr. Bailey, and concludes the coal trade must now be profitable, as they ran afford to have large new ships, and to lie six weeks in the river. Now if the profit of one of those ships was compared to that of James Fyfe's barge it would be found who bad the best of it. I had no idea that a Parliamentary Committee would have listened to anything half so unsatisfactory as the evidence of those two witnesses, and how it happened that Sir James Duke did not confute their nonsensical arguments to me seems astonish ing ; he must have known they were talking great absurdity, and in his own defence, as a factor, should have made it evident. My old friend, R. B. Roxby, has had ships in the coal trade for many years, and there are few men better acquainted with all Bills for the regulations of the coal trade than he is, and I think he might have been more explicit, as there are few i or none better able to give the evidence required than he s, particularly respecting the management and profit of colliers. March 1, 1838. LOBSKEY. - -- HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. .'lorning l9 minutes after 8 I Evening 54 minutes after 8 This day was published, THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA, From the Earliest Period. 3 vols. foolscap Svo. price 18s. in cloth. Lately published, THE HISTORY of FRANCE. By E. E. CROWE. 3 vols. foolscap Bvo. 18s. THE HISTORY of SPAIN and PORTUGAL. By S. A. DUNHAM. 3 vols. 30s. " A work of singular acuteness and information." Prescott's History of Ferdinand and Isabella. By the same Author THE HISTORY of the GERMANIC EMPIRE. 3 vols. 18s. Also, TIIE HISTORY of POLAND. 1 vol. 6s. 111. THE HISTORY of the NETHERLANDS. By T. C. 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SIR,—In your Paper of this evening, I perceive an error which it is but fair towards the parties interested, should be corrected. Under the head " Coal Trade," it is stated, show ing an advance to be on all sorts of Coals to the Coal-owner of 2s. -5d., which was stated by the witness to be twopence halfpenny, and if you will add the items which you give, this will clearly appear, viz.:— The average price of all sorts of Coals, sold on four consecutive market days, in December s. d. 1837, was In April, 1836, the average of four days wa5...... 19 3 Average price higher in 1837 than 1836 The average freight in December 1837, was ... 10 3i The average freight in April, 1836 Average freight higher Insurance and charges higher in Dec. 1837...... 0 Shewing the advance to be on all sorts of Coals to the Coal-owner only 0 2 s. d 2 11 2 I beg further to observe that the witness stated the allow ances to buyers to be 71d., viz.:— s. d. Tret, 1/. per cent. Discount 21. per cent. on two thirds s. d. and storage Is. per score 0 41- together 0 7i Factorage Del credere Commission, at 10s per cent. Bill and receipt stamps, and inci dental expences 0 1 i together 0 51 bein the Factor's charge. _ .._ I am, Sir, A HEARER OF THE EVIDENCE. London, March 2, IS3S, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silo—The three principal causes of the detention of the vessels engaged in the Coal Trade are—First, the regulation among the coalowners, by which the supply is regulated each fortnight, according to the state of the London market ; secondly, the want of a sufficient number of weigher; or meters ; and lastly, the agreement entered into by the ship owners themselves in conjunction with the coalowners, by which the factors receive orders to offer a certain numbs • of cargoes for sale each day, according to a certaio s?ale as to price, &c. First, as to the coalowners—l cannot think of a better com parison of their situation than to that of a mm who has had his constitution so long propped up by medicine, that he can scarcely live without it ; while at the same time it is sr c-etly underminin g his boOily strength ; for, from the prices being, artificially kept up, so as to enable the owners of expensively worked collieries yielding inf,rior coal, and at a considerable distance from the shipping ports, to work them to a profit, the proprietors of those more advantageously situated, worked at a lighter expense, and shipping the best coal, are realizing such a good return, that a large increase of capital is being invested in the trade, and railways are made and collie' les sunk in places where they would never have been thought of, if the trade had been left perfectly open. New collieries are now openin g faster than ever, although it is consid ere d th a t there are sufficient at work already to supply twice the present consumption ; but as they cannot hinder them working, they have to allow each new concern their share in the vend, which, if the consumption should not increase, will have to be taken off those already at work—so the thing appesra to le gra dually working its own cure; but if these regulations should be broken up, the re-action will be tremendous, if we may j itle-e from what has occurred. The last time the vends were off (as we term them), in the year 1833, the coalowners, in stead of netting 30s 6: 1 . re: Newcastle chaldron for the best coals, as they are doing at present, in many instances, after paying the freight, they did not realize much more than half that sum; and it was understood the very best collieries lost money that year, and several of the inferior and more distant ones could scarcely work at all, except at a most ruinous loss ; and, if that state cf things had continued much longer, would have to be wholly abandoned, to the irretrievable ruin of many of the proprietors. There is one thing connected with these regulations which presses hard, I think, on the poor of the metropolis, which is, that the small coal of the best Wallsend, with the dust taken out, is shipped for foreign ports (on account of export coal not being included in the vend), each colliery always vending the quantity allotted of the best quality it produces, at nine shillings a ton less than the Wallsend. From their excellent caking qualities they are touch used in the North, making an excellent fire by themselves. The middle classes generally mix them with an inferior quality of large coal, which rather improves them than otherwise. From the same cause, the Wallsend is charged 24a. 6d. for foreign (instead of 30a. 6d.) per chaldron, which I shoted therefore conclude to be a remu nerating price to the coalowner. Secondly, on referring to the Coal Letter, I find that it was the shortness of meters which caused the deten tion last December, for the cargoes were all sold before they came in turn for a meter, until the 27th of the month, when there were a few unemployed owing to a market falling on Christmas-day, which consequently was not held. Indeed, ever since I was conversant with the coal trade, there has always been a shortness of meters in that month, owing to the large influx of vessels which are employed in the foreign trade during the summer ; and the shipowners found that when a large fleet arrived, they were often sold off at once atlo coals ty prices, and before they came in turn for a meter. Thug would be at Is. or 2s. per ton higher, which weist into the to be made which I before noticed. In an ar • a p r o r c a k ng et e o m f e t n h t e coal-merchant—and this principally caused the sumticle set which down latelyas factors' appeared profits, in your whichpa To e , cannot observednnnt understand. Coals at the Pool price of 235. may be thus stated :-- g. d. Cast free on hoard 10s. 6d. per chaldron, 0r... II 6 p er ton. Freight a lare Factor's charges, including Is. Id. per ton city dues, lights, metage, commission, &c. &c... 2 9 Price in the Pool 23 0 Expenses of landing and delivering in to the consumer's cellar, the largest item of expense 12 0 35 0 Your's, &c. SPECTATOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUA. SIR,— In your paper of yesterday you give the evidence of seve ralwitnesses before the C oa l C omm i ttee on 'Monday, on so m e of which you will perhaps excuse me for making a remark. The evidence of Mr. Beale, I think, was satisfactory. It proved there was great impartiality use d b ot h i n the selection and appointing of meters, and that the business of the Coal Meter's Officer was well conducted in every respect. Mr. Charles Green, one of the Coal Meter's Committee, said, during the present year there would be id. per ton taken off their office charges, which is a matter of no great conse quence. Mr. Baill e y sa id t h e Deptford Pier Comp an y com plained of the inju r y susta i ne d by them in consequence of the Factors' regulations, b u t h e did not ma k e it appear that the y did receive any injury from those regulations ; he said one or two ships which were in distress and danger (from the ice), after several applications to London, got permission to un load ; does Mr. Bailley complains that the Captains had to go to London to consult the agents of their employe rs what was to be done with the car goes while in distress and danger? He perhaps thinks the Captains should have consulted him, and put their cargoes into a depot, to be retailed at a price fixed on by his superior judgment, he not knowing anything of the cost of production, or of the amount of capital laid out in the purchase of colliers, which he should have known be fore giving his evidence, likewise the expense of sinking a coal-pit, which would astonish even Mr. Bailley, Secretary to that stupendous undert a ki ng t h e W oo d en Pi er a t Deptford, which, to give our Newc as tl e f r i en d s an id ea o f, i s some thing inferior to the wheelbarro w sta i t h erecte d b y Si r Th omas - e co question,Bin do n they at would not ,oSandgateul and;discharge ifel prevention one-tenth of th Deptford Pier that they wheel from th e s t a i t h at S an d gate . lam not acquainted with the consumption o f coa l at Dept ford,theat but it is so small that they seldom have a small ship to deliver them ; and . the merchants, to s u it th e i r own conven i ence , send their craft into the pool for the q ua ntity t h ey want , b ut they may deliver from the ship as many as to keep Mr. Bailey's depot of , 1 000 to 2,000 tons full if they could find consumption for them, and would find no difficulty in purchasing that quantity each market-day ; but why purchase a ship when they cannot consume a barge load? As Mr. Bailey . does not know any legal impediment to prevent him forming a depot to contain 1,000 or 2,000 tons of coals, why does he not make one ? But who has to fill it ? Have the ships to discharge their cargoes into it, and make another voyage as quic k as they can, leaving their cargoes for Mr. Bailey to dispose of? It would take a depot to hold as many millions as he proposes thoustmds; . and I thi n k t h e con sumer would not have to complain of his regulati ons an d prices. What busines s has h e to listen to the complaints of the 9 captains . • Would he like any one to go and induce his servants to complain ? But the captains do not compl a in, because they have the s ense to know that if the trade was open they could make no m ore vo y a g es than the y do at present, unless the consumption was greater than it is. The omnibus-cad complains of the regulations of the Lord Mayor, and will do so until he can get as many passengers as to keep him continually plying, not caring . for the wear of wheels, horse-flesh, &c. ; but his master, like the ship-owner, has to look for some profit, to replace this tear and wear. Then why bring forward the evidence of the captain and cad, when you can get that of the owner and master? J nnes Fyfe, lighterman, , said on the. 24th of January twelve colliers came ashore at Deptford. Application was made for barges to unload them, but was refused, as t h e i ce that drove the ships ashore would have destroyed the barges and coals ; as it must be evident to every one that the coals would be safer in the ships that were quite secure, th oug h ashore, than in a barge expose d to the ioe. He advised one of the captains to unload over the Pier ; but had he f ou nd a merchant for the coals, or had they to be pit into it the depot, or given away at the price that James Pyle thought the situ ation of the ship required ? He seems . to, know more of the cost of production and the amount of c pital laid out in the LONDON: SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1838. MArylebone has disgraced itself. By the factious pro ceedings of some of the Radicals a Tory has been returned for that borough. The contemptible split among the Liberals not only deprived Mr. EWART of 21 I votes, but prevented a considerable number of electors, who did not choose to rote for one Liberal in preference to the other, from voting at all. But even those circumstances would not have secured Lord TEIGNMOUTH'S return, had not those Radi cals who prefer the Tories to the Whigs voted for him. We have been assured on undoubted authority that not less than 300 Radicals voted for Lord TEIGNMOUTH, so determined was faction to accomplish its mischievous ob jects. One section of the Radicals have loudly avowed their wish to come to blows with the Tories, and they only act consistently when they struggle with all their might to displace the Whigs, and put the Tories in office. In Marylebone they have accomplished their object, but should they succeed in turn ing out the Whigs, they will be grievously mistaken, if they think that the ultra-Radical party will gain any accession of strength. All the moderate men in the kingdom will, suppose, that the Radicals mean michief—that their fac tious conduct can only have for its ultimate object to force on a revolution, and they will rally round a Tory Govern_ ment, if that be in power, and crush the Radicals with a strong hand, inflicting on the country a long and dreary night of legal tyranny. Deeply do we regret the result of tile contest, but the very small number of voters who sup ported Col. THOMPSON is an unanswerable proof that Mr. EWART was fully justified in standing, and that we only did our duty in supporting him. The obstinacy of Colonel THOMPSON, we will add, has lowered him very much in our estimation, and having really wished him back into Parliament, we can only now look forward to his permanent excluaion from it. The man who submits to be the instru ment of a narrow plotting mischievous faction, has no right to expect the support of any constituency in this enlightened empire. On Tuesday Sir WILLIAM AIoLEswoRTH is to make the following motion : " To move an humble Address to the Queen, respectfully expressing the opinion of this House, that in the present criti cal state of the many of her Majesty's Foreign Possessions in various parts of the world, it is esseetial to the well-being of her Majesty's Colonial Empire, and of the many and important domestic interests which depend on the prosperity of the Colo nies, that the Colonial Minister should be a person in whose diligence, forethought, judgment, activity, and firmness this House and th e p u bli c may be able to place reliance ; and de claring, with a ll d e ference to the constitutional prerogatives of the Crown, that her Majesty's present Secretary of State for the Colonies does not enjoy the confidence of this House, or of the country." How he can undertake such an office, would be for us inexplicable, did not the Marylebone election thoroughly convince us that faction is resolved to gratify its ill regulated passions, though by self-destruction. Sir Wm. MOLEBWORTH belongs to the small party which desires to have a stand-up fight with the Tories, and wishes to put the Whigs out of the way, that the Radicals and the Tories may come to blows. He would put the Tories into office for this purpose, though he should thereby arm them with all the power, as he infallibly would, both of Whigs and Tories. That the Tories should make such a motion would be quite in accordance with their principles, but on what ground can be attack the Colonial Minister ? It is charged against Lord GLENELG by the Tories, both here and in Canada, that he and Lord GOSFORD have neglected the interest of the British party,lin order to sooth and conciliate the Cana dians. They have not been coercive enough ; they did not se nd soldiers enough to Canada. This is their great offence. Lord GOSEORD invited Mr. PAPINEAU to his table, where probably no leader of the French party ever appeared before. It was stated by Sir JOHN COLBORNE, not above a month ago, that the Government had so completely, at a former time stood apart from the French Canadians, and united itself with the English faction, that it was totally unac quainted with what was going on in the townships of Canada. The animosity which still exists and has long exist ed between the two races in Canada, one armed with t h e powers of the Government, domineering over and con tinually insulting the other, is scarcely conceivable in this country, whatever it may be in Ireland. Now the great object of Lord GLENELG and Lord GOSFORD, and of the Whig Ministers, as to Canada, has always been to sooth the outraged French Canadians ; and to accomplish that w e have no hesitation in saying, speaking from experience after the events, that they went so far as almost to forfeit the support of the British party in Canada, and its numerous friends at home. From the state of public opinion in this country, it is now plain that the Colonial Minister went further than he was warranted by a regard to the stability of the administration, in endeavouring to win over to peace and friendship, by kindness and deference, M. PAPINEAU, and his party. Lord GLENELG did net, however, succeed. The deeply en graved sense of outrage and insult for years was not to be effaced in a day, and the misled Canadians rose in arms. Now will Sir WILLIAM MoLEswoivrai censure Lord GLENELG for not succeeding by concession ? Will he brand all concession to the Canadians as wrong, by attack ing the Noble Lord for want of success ? Does he not see that by such a motion as that he pro mises to bring forward in the situation in which Lord GLENELG is placed, that be is in fact condemning the liberal policy of that Noble Lord, and enabling the Tories to give the ascendancy, both in argument and place to the ?rinciples of Tory tyranny ? Should he succeed, every Statesman, and particularly every Whig Statesman, will be henceforth taught that concession to popular demands is a crime, and that his duty to himself requires that he should ❑ever relax the rigid rule of coercion. In Lord GLaNaLG'S mild and merciful hand concession has failed to prevent civil war ; and for that S►r WILLIAM MOLESWORTII, a leader of the people, an advocate of concession, is about to denounce his policy-. How bitterly unjust, how miserably factious ! At the same time it is playing the game of the Tories. There is nothing in the motion that we see to prevent their voting for it. Cunningly is it con trived for that purpose ; and they who have waged; an in cessant war against popular principles, whose vast power in the empire —not to be overcome or put down by the Go vernment—is the real cause why the policy of the Whigs has not been more popular and more conceding, are to be placed in power by a popular leader denouncing the inuti lity of concession to popular demands. The Whig Ministers, who have certainly done more for the popular cause than any Ministry that ever existed, has been of late, we freely admit, roughly scourged ; and ►while it is 3 et bleeding and humiliated by the vote on the Ballot, and by the Marylebone election, a popular leader the representative of those whom the Whigs called into political existence, chooses this moment to make a motion on which a union of Tories and ultra-Radicals will complete its destruction. If prudence and policy cannot restrain Sir WILLIAM MoLEawoant from imitating the electors of Marylebone, and doing the work of the Tories, the electors of Leeds will probably think it their duty to express their opinions on his impor tant, and, to the public liberties, dangerous motion. The recent miserable display of hostility to Mr. O'CoN NELL by all the Tory Members, and by a considerable portion of those calling themselves Liberals, will not in spire the Irish people with much confidence in the present Parliament. Mr. O'CoNNELL has again and again asserted that there is a bad feeling but too prevalent in England and Scotland against Ireland ; and though for the sake of peace he is willing to make another experiment, he almost despairs of obtaining justice but by a repeal of the Union. The inconquerable hatred of the party which the Irish Members have mainly contributed to keep out of office i 3 only natural—we do not blame them for it—but what ex cuse is there for the conduct of such men as Mr. BENETT and Mr. HOWARD, who voted against him, and for fifty others who kept out of the way, in order to inflict what they considered a disgrace upon the man whom seven millions of Irish Catholics look up to as their best friend and protector ? It is useless to allege as an excuse the strong language—Mr. O'CONNELL hardly ever makes a speech without using strong language—his ardent tem perament and the treatment he has received impel him to it ; and why punish him for that which they overlook in tlTose who drive him to extremities? A combination of the enemies of Ireland got up subscriptions to eject him and many of his colleagues—the result of the first Irish Election Committee confirmed his worst suspicions —he denounced such treatment with more fervour, but not with more truth, than it had been denounced by writers in every liberal Journal. The latter said justice is set at defi ance, and the former said the agents are " perjured men ;" and for this distinction without a difference, he is voted guilty of a false and scandalous libel. That, however, is only a part of the injustice and provocation. An English Bishop accused him and all the Catholic Members of per_ jury ! English petitions were presented repeating the same charges, and English Members, in both Houses, added to the insult by deliberately stating their conviction of the • fact. Yet these are all passed over, and when one of the ac cused party retaliates, he is subjected to punishment. Have not the Irish reason to say they are treated as aliens ? Had this been the pure work of the Tories there could have been no cause of regret ; but it is a matter of serious regret that the conduct of men who profess to be friends to Ireland should confirm the charges made by Mr. O'CONNELL, and lead the Irish Catholics to believe that they are debarred of their rights and privileges as much by the secret hostility of false friends as the open hostility of their bitterest enemies. The effect of the decision will not soon be effaced ; it will make Mr. O ' CONNELL more powerful, and it will afford him the best argument he has ever had for demanding the repeal of the Union. We direct attention to the meeting of the Coffee and Eating-house Keepers on the subject of the Coal Mo nopoly, which will be found reported elsewhere. It is very creditable to the body that they have been the first to come forward for the removal of this grievous burden. We take the opportunity to publish at the same time a number of letters on the subject, some of which have been lying over for several days. The comments of op ponents, as well as friends, demonstrate the great interest which the public feel on the subject. The letter of Yr- RITAS, who we have no doubt is a factor, is the only one which needs any notice from us here, but they are all worthy of the reader's attention. VERITAS wishes the public to believe that the gains of the factors are much less than we said. Our readers will recollect, perhaps, that the article on which VERITAS comments was a notice of an article which we had inserted from a valued correspondent, and our estimate of the gains of the factors was merely a statement of the difference between the expense of bringing coals to the door of the consumer, exclusive of the tax which the factors impose on him, and the sum which he ac tually pays ; and that difference amounts to about 400,000/. annually. If the factors do not put it into their pockets, it is lost. A much larger portion of it, however, goes there, on the showing of VERITAS, than he makes it amount to. His arithmetic and his logic are on a par ; for Is. 3d. per ton on 2,626,997 tons is not, as he says 32,837/. 95., but is upwards of 164,000/. We have, how ever, received and seen other statements of the gains of the factors, besides those of VERITAS, some of which we publish ; and on a future day, when we have space to go into the matter, we will do ample justice to the factors. When a witness stands up in a Court of Justice, all the world expects him to speak the truth, and all the world admits that he lies under a moral obligation to speak the truth. That obligation—which grows from the consti tution of the universe—exists at all times and places, independently of courts of justice and of oaths. It has, however, been thought proper to enforce its observance, by imposing an oath on witnesses to speak the truth, to violate which is perjury. Is there any such moral obligation on the Catholics not to destroy the Church of England P Clearly there is not. On the contrary, the members of the Church of England declare that it is the duty of every Christian to give efficacy, force, and extension, to the religious opinions in which he honestly believes. The moral obligation on the Catholics is to do that which the oath requires him not to do. The oath imposed on him, as it is interpreted by the Bishop of EXETER, is a violation of that moral obligation which the Bishop and his friends affirm exists to propagate the truths of religion. The two obligations are at variance, therefore, and though we may say that the Catholics are as simple in taking the oath as the Protestants are in imposing it, clearly the prior moral obligation cannot be set aside by the oath. Let the Roman Catholic Members of the Legislature, then, who have right on their side, refrain from defending themselves, as Mr. LANGDALE did last night in the House of Commons. Men do mot stand paltering with rabid animals, a bite from which is death ; they destroy them—and if the rabidness of the Priests of the State Church is such that they will continue to scratch and bite other religionists, they must be assailed and crushed, not paltered with. Mr. LANa- DALE and his friends should attack the Bishops, and the rest of the Clergy, for continually violating their oaths. Taking Lord RADNOR'S speeches, the ReV.SYDNEY SMITI'S letters, and Mr. LustuNoToN's Dilemmas of a Churchman as their authority—and much more is accessible—it will be easy for the Catholic Members to prove that no class of men in this empire are so habitually guilty of what the Clergy call perjury as the Priests of the Established Church. Mr LUSIIINGTON accuses the whole body of them of habitually violating their oaths, as t) the Rubric, in order to please the rich, while they palm indecency on the poor. Let the Catholic Members of the Legislature, then, carry the war at once into the camp of their enemies, and we will answer for the eternal silence thereafter of all the brawling Pre lates and Priests of the empire on the perjury of the Ca tholic Members of the Legislature. The whole of the Paris Journals of Thursday have been received ; but the intelligence they bring is unimportant. Brigadier-General FLINTER'S victory over the Carlists is doubly confirmed—namely, by a despatch from himself to the Spanish Government, and by the following telegraphic communication received by the French Ministry : PARIS, INILLICII 1, 1838.—Government has received the following telegraphic despatch : " BORDEAUX, FEB. 27.—The united Carlist bands of Jara, Peco, and others, to tho amount of 2,000 foot and 800 horse, were come up with on the 16th, in the environs of Yebenes, province of Toledo, by Briga.. dier_General Flinter, who gained a complete victory over them. They lost 130 killed, 309 wounded, 1,340 prisoners, 40 of whom were chiefs, 303 horses taken, a great quantity of arms, and all their bag gage. Such was the result of this fortunate affair." . . . For this victory, which FLINTER achieved without the loss of a single soldier, haying attacked the enemy when unaware of his intentions, the QUEEN REGENT has rewarded the brave Commander with the Grand Cross of St. FEU, DINAND of • the Third Class. The following is the result of this affair, as reported in the Mad id Gazette of the 21st ult. : " From the despatch sent by the worthy Brigadier Flinter to the Captain-General, it appears that, by a well.combined plan, he succeeded in surprising, attacking, and completely routing, at day-break on the 18th, in the plains of Yebenes, the whole faction of Jara, La Mancha, and Estremadura, amounting to 800 cavalry and 2,000 infantry, whilst his force did not exceed 600 infantry and 220 cavalry. The Carlists were pursued for three leagues, and the remnants sought refuge in the inaccessible heights of the Sierra de San Marcos. The Carlists slain amount to 190, including a colonel and several officers ; the number of wounded, according to Flinter's account, ascends to 309, the prisoners to 1,300. He has also captured 502 good muskets, 74 bayonets, 40 lances, 30 sabres, 5 trumpets, two waggons containing ammunition, six cart-loads of cloth, several scarlet cloaks and caps, a Hock of sheep, and 303 bad horses. The ground is covered with other spoils, and several men taken from the villages by Jara have been liberated, as also the musicians of Polau, whom that chieftain took with him to raise the spirit of his troops." . . In a private letter, addressed by the Brigadier-General to the Commandant of the Province of Toledo, FLINTER himself says : " The Province is saved. I have captured the magnificent horse of the chieftain Peco, who escaped most miraculously. Many of the wounded Carlists died during the night, but I shall require 60 cars to convey the remainder. lam about to set out for Sonseca with the prisoners, and shall return to Toleda to-morrow, to march again in pursuit of Tara; and I hope, if the authorities support me, to clear this Province of the Carlists. I have given them quarter, and have only shot a portion of deserters from the guards, the 2d of the line, the Queen Regent's Regiment, and some cavalry soldiers belonging to the corps operating in this Province, in compliance with the desire of their respective regiments, and from a sense of the necessity of maintaining discipline. " The celebrated robber-Carlist, the terror of the province, known by the surname of the Tuerto de Espana, and the two brothers Navarros, who committed such atrocities at Navahermosa, have also been shot. I regret it in my soul, but the public cause demanded this terrible sacrifice." In Paris, all party feuds and struggles seem in abeyance at the present moment. No question of European interest occupies the Chambers, nor is any likely to arise imme diately. The KING considers himself strong enough to di rect the movements cf the Government, without dread of the influence of the Opposition ; and there cannot be a doubt, but that he is so just now. Spain is a thorn in his side, but such is his dislike of intervention, that we question whether he would not prefer the entry of DON CsaLos as a conqueror into Madrid, to the sending of fifty thousand Frenchmen across the frontier. The other rumours in these Journals, are not worth notice, relating, as they do, to police plots and conspiracies, all of which, are, as a matter of course, laid at the door of the Republicans. An Evening Paper has the following letter : " WARSAW, Fez. 16.—For the second time a report is in circula tion that Field. Marshal Paskewitsch will leave Poland, and that be is to go at the end of April to Tiflis, to take the command of the army of the Caucasus. If this report should prove true, it may be confident!? affirmed that the Czar does not think of the conquest of Circassia only, but that he has further views on Persia, Asiatic Turkey, or evert the English possessions in India. The Field Marshal Is considered, to be the first man in Russia for military talents. It has always been the system of the Czar to place a Field Marshal at the head of an army only on important occasions, and the war with Circassia is not looked upon in that light in Russia."—Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS.—Paats, Marren 1. five per Cents., 109 f. 70c, 65c, 70c. Three per Cents., 79f. The. 70c. 65c. Bank Actions, 2,650 f. 2,652 f. 50c. 2,655 f. 2,660 f. ftente de Naples, 99f. 20c. 15c. Roman Five per Cents., 101%43x, Spanish Actives, 19w. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10434, Belgian Bank, 1,5171. 50e. 1,520 f. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 55. Haytian Loan, 390 t: RICH-111'90E10N LONDON. One month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 'sr. sg, Three months, paper, 25f. 35c. ; mmiey, 25f. 35c. LAST PRICES, Five per Cents. 109 f. 80c. Three per Cents. 79f. 80c. Bank Actions, 2,660 f. Romans, 101%. Belgian Loan, 1043 Q. Belgian Bank, 1,520 f. Haytian Loan, 390 f. Spanish Actives, 1914. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 55. New York Papers to the 10th of February inclusive have been received this morning, bringing advises from Toronto of the 2d, and Montreal of the 3d. The Upper Provinco was then in a state of great tranquillity. The House of Assembly had expressed its admiration of the gal lant conduct of its Speaker, Col. M'NAB, by voting one hun dred guineas to buy him a sword, and seventy-five guineas to purchase a sword for Lieut. DREW, R.N., for the daring bravery displayed by him in the burning of the steamer Caroline. Before all is over, we dare say the Caroline will be an expensive affair enough to the loyalist Assembly of the Upper Province. According to the Buffalo Advertiser of the sth, the frontier is so tranquil that General SCOTT has di s pensed with the further services of the militia ; three companies of regular troops being deemed sufficient to maintr:in the neutrality of the States. Nearly . two hundred of the fugitive insurgents from Navy Island had reached Cleve' land on the Ist, wandering they knew not well whither• Others were on the road exhausted with fatigue, and in tz state of deplorable destitution. The following paragraph is from the Toronto Patriot of the 2d : " Fifteen of the persons taken in the schooner Ann, captured by the Loyalists, said by the Detroit Post to have been " all massacred," were brought to this :city on Tuesday afternoon under a guard of milltia. and lodged in gaol to await their trial. The London district, so m ush talked of as the theatre of excitement and discontent, seems to be quiet. " NAMES OF TIM PRISONERS :—Edward A. Theller, General Ste phen B. Bropney, Colonel of engineers; Claude Campean, Augustus D. Bodineau, Francis St. Augustine, Harry Johnston, Abraham W. Partridge, T. Culver, Chancey Parker, Louis Lennoux, Francis Clou tier, Walter Chase, Benjamin F. Pew, Henry L. Hull, and George Davis, Captain. The news from Montreal of the 3d is not quite so sa tisfactory. According to the Herald—an ultra -Tory paper of violent principles—further disturbance was an ticipated in the county of Acadie. Lord GOSFORD wag preparing to return to England, Sir JOHN COLBOg% having assumed the functions of Governor-in-ChieL Numerous bodies of troops were so disposed as to act in concert in the event of any fresh outrage —a misfortune which we see no reason to dread, unless the French are driven to deperation by the mal-conduct of their conquerors. _ Advices from Mexico announce preparations for a re newal of the war with Texas. The following account of the Money Market is from the New York Commercial Advertiser of the 10th ult. : The pressure in the Money Market in Boston has been greatly increased during the last week, by the curtailment of the issues or the Banks in consequence of the prevailing panic, and by the large" amount that has been withdrawn from circulation by the failure of the Commonwealth and the suspension of business by several 0C the other Banks. The returns of the Committee appointed to evr mine the condition of the Associated Banks have made a very satisfactory Report, and confidence has in consequence been 13- some degree restored. The public are still suspicious in regard to the solvency of some of the banks, but without sufficient reason. The associated banks are doing all they can to restore confidence, by o ' ln-- biting a full statement of their condition, collectively and individually-- The associated banks have made a reduction of 1,363,300 dollars 01 ' their loans, and this reduction has produced a reduction of 374,834 dol lars in the circulation, while the specie is increased 125,841 dollars,- This having been done in the course of a few days only, produced visible effect on the business of the city. We understand that the Ministers did no t, etS IF usual, when Ministerial questions arc coming on, send round circulars for their friends to attend on the night when the affs2 7 of Mr. O'Connell was before the House of Commons. If to the Liberal party this may be an evidence of lukewartuness and neglect—though we seeing a good reason for it do not say it is—to the Tories it must be an answerable proof that , the Ministers did not take up the question as a Ministerial one, and were not, as Ministers, defeated. But the Tory lie has already served its purpose, and is not worthy of further 00 111- ment or refutation. BRAZILS.—The Rio Janeiro journals announce that Commander Moritinho, the Brazilian Ambassador at Paris, is to be superseded. The change is to take place in consequence of M. Moritinho having requested permission to retire into Italy on account of his ill health, which, however, is not so seriously injured as some journals have recently an— nounced. It is expected that lie will shortly be appointed 't? the Embassy at Rome, the differences between Brazils itr.d the Papal See being far from adjusted. EIGHT LIVES LosT.—A boat marked " of Sunderland, John Alderson, was picked up at \Vinterton , , on Monday morning; it was seen making for the shore, with seven men and a female in her; when, in coming over the outer bank, a sea struck her and carried her over, and the next sea capsized it, and threw them all out, and they were washed away with the strong flood tide, the exertions to save them by the men on beach proving quite useless ; the boat has been brought in here. The vessel, of which the above men were the ill-fated crew, now lies a wreck on our beach. —Norfaa Chronicle. The first ball in Paris to which all persons indis criminately were admitted for money, was given at the Opera in 1716. The ordonnance was granted by the Regent Duke of Orleans, and forbade any person, of whatever qua lity, to enter without pa)ing. The price of the tickets was five livres, and all other persons were interdicted from giving similar balls. The publication of Tim SUN NIWSPAPER commenced this day at 0 minutes past Three a' Clock. " " . ,rr• A L k „. ' 11 9, r Zile WITH WHICH ~ THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. I I I